[CASSANDRA-10788] Upgrade from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0 fails with NullPointerException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.1, 3.1
• Component/s: Local/Startup and Shutdown
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Stefania Alborghetti
• Reporter: Tomas Ramanauskas

Authors

Stefania Alborghetti

Reviewers

Marcus Eriksson

• Created: 30/Nov/15 14:53
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 04/Dec/15 13:30

Description

I tried to upgrade Cassandra from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0, however, I get this error on startup after Cassandra 3.0 software was installed:

ERROR [main] 2015-11-30 15:44:50,164 CassandraDaemon.java:702 - Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.delete(FileUtils.java:374) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.migrateDataDirs(SystemKeyspace.java:1341) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:180) [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:561) [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:689) [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0]